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After her father was killed on All Saints' Day and her brother died from typhoid on Mardi Gras, Chopin became skeptical of religion, which she presents through Edna, who finds church "suffocating". Being widowed and left with six children to look after influenced Chopin's writing, which she began at this time. Emily Toth argues against the view that Chopin was ostracized from St. Louis after the publication of The Awakening , stating that many St. Louis women praised her; male critics condemned her novel.
Aspects of Chopin's style also prefigure the intensely lyrical and experimental style of novelists such as Virginia Woolf and the unsentimental focus on female intellectual and emotional growth in the novels of Sigrid Undset and Doris Lessing. Chopin's most important stylistic legacy is the detachment of the narrator.
Birds — In the beginning of the book, a parrot is in a cage shouting to Mr. It also represents how Edna is caged in her society, without much freedom to live as she pleases. As Edna is walking towards the ocean in the end of the novel we see a bird with a broken wing. Many have a different interpretation of this injured bird. Some would say that the bird is a representation of Edna finally breaking away from the idea of Victorian womanhood, this is because throughout the entire novel we see caged birds and now we are finally seeing a bird that is free despite its injury.
Ocean — The ocean can be interpreted to represent many different things. While the Pontellier family are vacationing at the resort Edna teaches herself how to swim. The ending of the book all depends on how the reader perceives it to be. Many questions whether or not Edna dies in the end of the novel. If Edna is thought to be dead, then it is an ironic death because the sea is where she discovered herself. Those that believe Edna purposely kills herself justify her death as saying the ocean is what Edna believed what would free her from the chains that were placed on her by society.
Piano — Throughout the novel many characters play musical instruments, specifically the piano. It is as if she has a better understanding of herself and her feelings after hearing the woman play the piano. Edna also feels that same emotion when Mademoiselle Reisz plays the piano. It is as if the music that comes from this instrument represents how these women inspire Edna to become a stronger and more independent woman. One of the most prominent themes in The Awakening is solitude.
As referenced previously, Chopin's work once contained the word in its title when it was originally called A Solitary Soul. Through Edna Pontellier's journey, Kate Chopin sought to highlight the different ways that a woman could be in solitude because of the expectations of motherhood, ethnicity, marriage, social norms, and gender.
Chopin presents Edna's autonomous separation from society and friends as individually empowering while still examining the risks of self-exploration and subsequent loneliness.
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In an attempt to shed her societal role of mother and wife, Edna takes charge of her limited life and makes changes to better discover her true self. For example, Edna leaves her husband and moves into a new house to live by herself, a controversial action since a true woman would never leave her husband. Although Edna's journey ultimately leads to an unsustainable solitude due to lack of societal support, "her death indicates self-possession rather than a retreat from a dilemma. By making Edna's experiences critically central to the novel, Chopin is able to sound a cautionary note about society's capacity to support women's liberation.
As shown through Edna's depressing emotional journey, isolation, and eventual suicide, Chopin claims that the social norms and traditional gender roles of the 19th century could not tolerate an independent woman. Chopin's The Awakening questions the value of solitude and autonomy within a society unable to positively sustain women's freedom. The themes of romance and death in The Awakening aid Chopin's feminist intent of illuminating the restrictive and oppressive roles of women in Victorian society.
Edna has an emotional affair with Robert, who leaves in order to avoid shaming her in society. Through these affairs, Edna exercises agency outside of her marriage and experiences sexual longing for the first time. Leaving society all together was Edna's way of rejecting and escaping this oppressive dichotomy. One critic stated that the book leaves one sick of human nature, while another one stated that the book is morbid because it is about an unholy love that tested traditional gender roles of the late s and that the book belongs to the overworked field of sex fiction.
When the book was reevaluated years later it was then recognized as canonical due to the feminist theme. This later then led to many other women writers of the Nineteenth century to become recognized for literary themes on gender roles viewed by their regions, culture, or religion. When Edna first hears Mademoiselle Reisz play, she develops a strong appreciation towards music and art. At the ball at the Grand Isle, when Edna is seen with Robert listening to Mademoiselle Reisz play a piece by Chopin, the piece sends shivers down her spine.
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The emotional fluidity of music is not solely responsible for Edna's evolving constitution. Such an assertion would deny any individual agency on her part and misrepresent the synthesis of artistic form and content that serves as a musical parallel to Edna's experiences. Chopin's music successfully integrates the opposition of "the 'classical' concern for form and the 'romantic' urge of inspiration. Therefore, due to Edna's fascination with romantic melodies, it causes Edna to 'Awaken' and desire new things to free herself from confinement.
Camastra states that Edna comes to the same despondency that the writer Maupassant arrived to.
Maupassant attempts to commit suicide a few months before his actual death in Maupassant fictionalized spirits and Frederic Chopin internalized them in his music. In "The Awakening", Edna is fascinated by the musical poet's repertoire, and is forced to confront the spectral presence of an existential yearning for something else that eventually drives her to commit suicide. The Awakening was particularly controversial upon publication in Although the novel was never technically banned, it was censored. The public reaction to the novel was similar to the protests that greeted the publication and performance of Henrik Ibsen 's landmark drama A Doll's House , a work with which The Awakening shares an almost identical theme.
Both contain a female protagonist who abandons her husband and children for self-fulfilment. However, published reviews ran the gamut from outright condemnation to the recognition of The Awakening as an important work of fiction by a gifted practitioner. Divergent reactions of two newspapers in Kate Chopin 's hometown of St. Louis , Missouri , reflect this. Louis Republic labeled the novel "poison" and "too strong a drink for moral babes," [9] and the St.
Louis Mirror stated, "One would fain beg the gods, in pure cowardice, for sleep unending rather than to know what an ugly, cruel, loathsome Monster Passion can be when, like a tiger, it slowly awakens. This is the kind of awakening that impresses the reader in Mrs. Louis Post-Dispatch praised the novel in "A St.
Louis to become a professional writer, she was of particular interest there. Some reviews clucked in disappointment at Chopin's choice of subject: Others mourned the loss of good taste; The Nation claimed that the book opened with high expectations, "remembering the author's agreeable short stories," and closed with "real disappointment," suggesting public dissatisfaction with the chosen topic: Some reviews indulged in outright vitriol, as when Public Opinion stated, "We are well-satisfied when Mrs. Pontellier deliberately swims out to her death in the waters of the gulf.
Chopin's work also garnered qualified, though still negative, reviews. The Dial called The Awakening a "poignant spiritual tragedy" with the caveat that the novel was "not altogether wholesome in its tendencies.
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Cather "hope[d] that Miss Chopin will devote that flexible, iridescent style of hers to a better cause. Chopin did not write another novel after The Awakening and had difficulty publishing stories after its release.